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Speaker 1: So good day for events in Eden Park. The government

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Speaker 1: has confirmed new settings twelve large and twenty medium sized

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Speaker 1: concerts a year on any day without the need for

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Speaker 1: resource consent. And at last the state of origin is confirmed.

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Speaker 1: Exhorting as the park CEO and is with us.

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Speaker 2: Good morning morning.

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Speaker 3: How are you, Mike?

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Speaker 2: I'm very well indeed, big day. Excited.

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Speaker 3: It's a huge day, historic day for Eden Park, our

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Speaker 3: national stadium.

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Speaker 2: Why did it take so long to get here? Do

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Speaker 2: you reckon? It's the weirdest thing, isn't it.

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Speaker 3: Well, some of these events we plan for up to

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Speaker 3: six years and to see now we're in a situation

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Speaker 3: where our consenting regime is in line with other global venues.

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Speaker 3: When I started here nine years ago, seventy percent of

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Speaker 3: the activity that we're doing today wasn't part of our

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Speaker 3: business model. I was perplexed, and the team has been

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Speaker 3: committed to getting us to where we are today.

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Speaker 2: What's it worth to your bottom line?

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Speaker 3: Well, we know that since the Rugby World Park, Eden

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Speaker 3: Park delivered over a billion dollars of economic benefit. The

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Speaker 3: estimates in the US University of Auckland reporting said this

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Speaker 3: change could see up to one hundred million a year

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Speaker 3: in economic benefit as a result of their resource consent.

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Speaker 1: Changes and is the demand there? It's one thing to

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Speaker 1: be able to do it, but is the demand there?

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Speaker 3: Well, it's say Mike, I'm confident that just even the

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Speaker 3: setting of changing so we can have Sunday shows. There

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Speaker 3: are artists that they're runs that comes through the East

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Speaker 3: Coast of Australia. They need surity of dates, they need

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Speaker 3: surety of times and this provides that clarity. So the

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Speaker 3: changes are significant. It aligns with international venues and we

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Speaker 3: are a real player now with the seventy million of

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Speaker 3: inf fund on the East Coast and also in Australasia.

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Speaker 2: And is that real?

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Speaker 1: I mean the state of oath thing today. It's taken

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Speaker 1: a while to get across the line, but I mean,

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Speaker 1: if it's right, it's five million, buys you that that's

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Speaker 1: a good investment, isn't it?

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Speaker 3: Certainly is. This is one of Australia's biggest sporting events

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Speaker 3: that they will inject over twenty million of economic benefit

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Speaker 3: this weekend. We've got the Edinburgh tattoo. The Premiere of

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Speaker 3: Queensland came out yesterday and said nine million dollars of

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Speaker 3: economic benefit. Jehovah's Witness delivered three and a half million

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Speaker 3: visitors to Auckland and New Zealand. So we are a

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Speaker 3: strategic asset for New Zealand and a community asset Porklands.

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Speaker 3: I do want to acknowledge the community. We have over

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Speaker 3: ninety seven percent support. This has been about engaging with

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Speaker 3: the community, transparency and also careful event management.

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Speaker 1: Well you have a good day, Nick, Nick Sautaner, who's

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Speaker 1: the CEO of Eden Parkard, that announcement's being made.

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Speaker 2: I think as we speak for more from the Mike

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